Choosing map providers problem

[Jan Schubert]

On 04.03.2013 21:19, Dirk Hohndel wrote:
> "Robert C. Helling" <helling at lmu.de> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I just realized you can now change map providers in the preferences 
>> dialog. Great.
>>
>> (Did I mention before that I miss a keyboard shortcut to open preferences 
>> on Debian flavoured Linux? On the Mac, the usual Windmill-, works).
>>
>> But it seems this only semi-works. For some map sources (I remember google 
>> satellite view) only the text appears but the images don't. And after some 
>> playing (which is why I cannot remember) when I change the value and press 
>> 'OK', subsurface thinks about a second but then closes the preferences 
>> dialog without an effect, I still have the google maps map and that is 
>> also selected when I reopen preferences.
>>
>> Restarting subsurface seems to help. But still, I get an empty map with 
>> google satellite and only the lineart with google hybrid, anything with 
>> Yahoo only gives me the OSM map.
>>
>> Maybe we should restrict the options to stuff that works?
> Thanks - I never thought of that.
>
> Strangely this all worked fine for me (actually, two maps didn't, so I
> disabled them).
>
> Can we get more data from other testers? Is this a geo-regional issue (I
> was actually worried about that)? Is this an API key issue?
>
> I will test this on all three platforms again tonight...

I could not see any malfunctioning so far running Ubuntu 13.04,
especially the Goofle maps satellite view Robert mentioned looks OK over
here.

That said: The map of the map data providers is a really impressive list!

//Jan